European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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Conducting Research on Eco-innovation and Circular Economy in SMEs
December 9, 2021 - December 10, 2021
The University of Castilla La Mancha in association with the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), who co-brands the event, organizes a two-day conference at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Cuenca Campus with the title “Conducting Research on Eco-innovation and Circular Economy in SMEs” in December 9-10th, 2021
Nowadays we are more conscious than ever about the climate change impacts in every dimension of our life and the fact that we are worsening life conditions for future generations. Therefore, there is agreement at all levels (policy, civil society, business leaders) about the urgent importance of acting to handle environmental challenges. Environmental sustainability refers to the set of corporate behaviours and strategies that “mitigate a firm’s impact on the natural environment,” which include “implementing products, processes, and policies that reduce energy consumption and waste, us[ing] ecologically sustainable resources, and employ[ing] environmental management systems” (Walls, Phan, & Berrone, 2011: 73). Along this line, eco-innovation and circular economy business models are referent behaviours for achieving environmental sustainability.
We aim it as an interactive event that, hopefully, supports our participants in actively making a difference with their work.
The Conference will consist of plenary sessions and thematic sessions for the different topics of the papers submitted. These sessions will be held in English.
We welcome contributions of conceptual and empirical (qualitative or quantitative) nature. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Ecoinnovation in the transition to a Circular Economy.
- Embedding circular economy into business models
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Regional policies in support to a Circular Economy transition.
- Sustainability in Higher Education- educational formats
- Sustainability and new technologies (AI, digitalization, …)
- Circular economy progress across different sectors
- Behavioural economics for environmental sustainability
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
- Extended Abstract submission: until 5th November, 2021
- Announcement of accepted abstracts: November 12th, 2021.
- Registration: from 12-19th November 2021.
- Conference dates: December 9th afternoon) -10th (morning), 2021.
The conference will be presential, but we will organize it so that interested researchers can also participate online via Teams meetings.